Hello everyone!!! I hope everything is still good for all y'alls! Everything is still going great over across the sea.
So let us dive right in to my life.
Monday, last Monday, it was an alright day. After righting home, we
decided to get some Chinese food that... to say the least, messed with
our systems. After that we just hung out at the Apartment, cleaned up a
Little bit. Then we went to teach Peter, the person we set a baptismal
date with. He gave us the bad news that he found out he has cancer. In
his lungs... and his bone marrow. They told him they will begin Kemo
almost immediately, which shows how bad it really is. So our lesson with
him, was just giving him comfort and encouraging him to continue to
pray for strength. We also gave him a Blessing, that he said felt really
good, and game him some Peace and comfort. After this lesson with went
and picked up the Esbjerg Elders for splits. After picking them up, I
made sticky buns and we went and bought some turtle ice cream, which was
only just the beginning.
Tuesday, splits day. I had Elder Eisert the Whole day.
My wonderful MTC companion. The day started off like any other day. We
woke up, got ready and ate breakfast, studied. But lunch is where Things
got crazy. For lunch we decided to go out and find some food to eat.
Our lunch consisted of an entire pastry each, with a roll, and mountain
dew mixed with saft(juice concentrate) this pastry was... probably 200
grams of butter in it. But I digress, after eating those, fighting off
bees, and holding all that food Down. We began our Wor. First stop,
finding creepy Pete. I'm not entirely sure why I wanted to find him,
because I had heard from other missionaries terrible stories about this
man. That he was attracted to a missionary 3 or 4 years back, just kind
of not right in the head. But the last door we knocked on where I
thought he was, turned out to be him. Creepy half smile and all. He let
us in, and we walked into a fairly tidy house. On his coffee table he
had 7-9 candles laid in a line, all of them were lit. Then on the wall
over by his eating table, he had two identical Pictures of him hanging
up. On the window sill he had 2 other Pictures of him there. So... we
shared with him a quick message, gave him a book of mormon Again and
encouraged him to read it, then left for our own safety. The way he
would look at you is bend his head Down and moves his eyes to the top of
his head. (Which is where the creepiness came from)He didn't seem too
bad, he was nice, but creepy. Then we drove out to a town 15 minutes
away because we got burned from an old lady, and started knocking on
doors. Then we drove home and dropped them off at the train station.
That was Tuesday. :P
Wednesday, zone training. What this entales is that we
got on a train in the morning, rode it for 2 hours. Had a meeting for 3
hours, rode home for 2 hours. Then we saw Tai, the computer genius and
talked a Little bit about why we have religion. Then we went and taught
Kim, another genius, and we talked about the other half of the Word of
wisdom that everyone seems to forget. It was a really good lesson.
Thursday rolls around, We started off trying to stop by
some potentials and that old lady that burned us, with no luck. Then we
had an awesome lesson with Andrea. Where we went over the principles of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, which include, faith in God and Christ,
Repentance, Baptism, Recieving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring
to the end. We talked about baptism with her Again, and she said she
wanted to. So we set a date, for the 5th of October. What this Means is
that we will probably be going to Germany because that is where the
closest baptismal font is! So we are super excited, and she is an
awesome lady. She is reading in the book of mormon every night, and we
are actually texting her a chapter to read every night. Every time she
says it was amazing and related with her so much. After this awesome
lesson with Andrea, we tried stopping by Peter, WHO sadly wasn't feeling
well enough to meet with us because of Kemo.
Friday came, lots of time spent weekly planning, then
we made this Little weekly newsletter for the branch, then we had a good
lesson with Marco, a less active where we talked about the sacrament,
but it ended up being him telling us all about his theories on why Harry
Potter is bad, etc etc. Then we had an awesome eating appointment with
familien Kuntz. Where we shared a message about how important it is
to be a missionary through example. That everything we do is seen, and
makes an impact. Speaking of which, in the library just barely, a man
was looking up The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints because
of us just being here. Everything Counts.
Saturday, We helped Yaseen on his house a bit. Then we
had an appointment with Amalie, WHO is a Danish teen, that has
been investigating the church for a while and has felt the spirit, but
wants to live the Danish college life of drinking and partying, so
won't accept it. So we are trying to start from Square one, and rebuild
her Desire. (At one point she was praying for a baptismal date and said
she found an answer) That was a tough lesson, because we just said
that don't and won't force her into anything. We just want to help her
in any way that we can. After that we had a crack Down lesson with Tai.
Where we just told him how the book of mormon is the thing that holds
our religion together. So we invited him to read it, study it, even to
try and find flaws, and to pray about it. It was a Little harsh of
a lesson, but I feel that it was the only way for him to make that NeXT
step of reading and trying for himself.
Church on Sunday was awesome. Andrea was there and she
absolutely loved it. The members talked with her quite a bit, and it was
just a good time. After that we went knocking for quite a bit, with no
luck. Then we stopped by Peter just to see how he is doing, which is
tough. Kemo is definitely not a good thing. Then we taught an American,
WHO has read the chapter in the book of mormon we gave him, then he had a
Whole ton of questions for us. It was an awesome lesson.
Now I am here. Thanks for reading and stuff! I love you all and wish you the best!
Ældste Swan
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